Example sentences of "looked out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talbot looked out through the window for an unseeing moment , then back at Hawkins . |
| 2 | She looked out through the big picture window and across the manicured lawn and down towards the ponds and away towards the line of birches at the bottom of the garden . |
| 3 | The Saturday afternoon was drawing in now and Carrie looked out through the partly drawn curtains at the dark , rolling clouds . |
| 4 | They looked out through the grimy windows and shook their heads . |
| 5 | Wriggling his toes with a sigh of relief , he looked out through the tall louvred doors to the deep marble terrace stretching the full length of the suite . |
| 6 | Joseph looked out through the windows and saw three small Annamese children dressed in traditional silk tunics like their parents walking on the lawns below the terrace in the company of a plainly garbed Annamese servant . |
| 7 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 8 | Carefully , he straightened and looked out through the fluted glass in the upper part of the door . |
| 9 | He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist . |
| 10 | At the front , two high curved windows gave a view of the square garden while at the rear one huge expanse of glass looked out over a stone wall with three niches , each containing a marble statue ; Venus , naked , one hand delicately shielding the mons Veneris , one pointing at her left nipple , a second female figure , half robed and wearing a wreath of flowers and , between them , Apollo with his lyre , laurel-crowned . |
| 11 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 12 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 13 | I got up and , sitting at my window , looked out over the still-sleeping city , and wrote my first poem to this unknown god : |
| 14 | The boy slept in a large front bedroom whose window , were it not so closely covered by an old woollen blanket , looked out over the once elegant front walkway with its crazy paving and stepped terraces . |
| 15 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 16 | She looked out over the rows of eager faces waiting for her to justify her educational policy , and she could n't think of a word to say . |
| 17 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 18 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 19 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 20 | We looked out over the bay to the houses directly opposite . |
| 21 | In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees . |
| 22 | There were no windows in the hut , but the open doorway looked out over the mountainside across the valley to the emerald paddy fields and , far away to the east , the village . |
| 23 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 24 | Along the wall opposite the bookcase was a bed and under the front window which looked out over the tiny arched lane and fields , was a small table with a photograph of a young dark-haired woman and a slightly older man with large penetrating eyes and a broad grin . |
| 25 | From his high-rise office Carson looked out over the roofs of Rome , then at the colonel across the desk , then finally up at Hawkins . |
| 26 | She took her hand away , leaned on the rail and looked out over the sea . |
| 27 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 28 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 29 | Benin eased the velvet curtains apart and looked out over the brightly lit garden . |
| 30 | ‘ God , I hope so , ’ Whitlock said then got to his feet and moved to the balcony where he looked out over the illuminated New York skyline . |